Annette Brigitte Merz (born 1 December 1965, Frankfurt am Main[1]) is a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, on the faculty of the University of Utrecht.
[3] In the book, Merz and Theissen "assert that the Christian sources portray both positive and negative assessments of temple sacrifice and that Jesus, near the end of his life, deliberately created a rite to displace such sacrifices" and argue that "significant sayings of Jesus indicate a critical attitude towards the temple cult.
But the "kingdom of God" is not an end in itself",[5] and also examine "five of the most important differences” between Jesus and John.
[8] In 2007, she and several other scholars published Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, a major volume on the parables of Jesus.
In 2012 she was due to publish Kompendium der frühchristlichen Wundererzählungen, another extensive volume which documents the miracles of Jesus.